On January 4, 2007, plaintiffs, the owner and operator of multiple rental units and unnamed tenants, filed suit against Cherokee County, Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to challenge County Ordinance No. 2006-003 which purported to establish penalties for "the harboring of illegal aliens" in the County. The Ordinance was similar to others recently passed by cities seeking to expel undocumented immigrants from their boundaries.

Immediately following the filing, the District Court (Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr.) entered a TRO and preliminary injunction, with the consent of the parties, barring enforcement of the Ordinance pending the final outcome of similar cases - Reynolds v. City of Valley Park, Missouri [IM-MO-1] and Lozano v. City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania [IM-PA-1].

On August 28, 2007, the Court administratively close the case, advising the parties that if they wanted to reopen it, they needed to file a motion to that effect.

Elizabeth Daligga - 07/02/2012


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